TNPSC Current Affairs February 19, 2018

www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs February 19, 2018 (19/02/2018)

Topic : India’s Cultural Panorama, Latest Diary of Events

National Banana Festival 2018

National Banana Festival (NBF) 2018 is being held at Kalliyoor, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

The festival plays host to a buyer-seller meet, training programmes, documentary screenings, photography contest etc.

The festival also includes a national seminar, exhibition, training programmes, farmers’ meet and a host of other activities.

Topic : India’s Cultural Panorama, Latest Diary of Events, World Organizations

Theatre Olympics

India is hosting the 8th Edition of Theatre Olympics ‘The Biggest Theatre Celebration of the World’.

About Theatre Olympics:

The Theatre Olympics was established in 1993 in Delphi, Greece, as the first international theatre festival.

With the tagline ‘Crossing Millennia’, this is an initiative to connect the cultural past with the present and future, bringing the richness and diversity of theatre heritage to the experiments and research of contemporary theatre.

The first country to host the Theatre Olympics was Greece in 1995.

Key facts:

The Theatre Olympics, being held in India for the first time, is being organised by National School of Drama, under the aegis of Ministry of Culture.

Topic : Latest Historical Events

Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa’s birth anniversary

Ramakrishna was born on 18 February 1836, in the village of Kamarpukur, in the Hooghly district of West Bengal.

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa born Gadadhar Chatterjee or Gadadhar Chattopadhyay, was an Indian mystic and yogi during the 19th century.

Topic : Development processes and the development industry the role various groups and associations

Watan ko Jano

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had recently organized the programme “Watan Ko Jano”.

About Watan Ko Jano:

“Watan Ko Jano” is sponsored jointly by Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India (Kashmir Cell) and State Rehabilitation Council Social Welfare Department.

The programme aims to give exposure to the youth and children of Jammu and Kashmir about the cultural and socio-economic development taking place in other parts of the country.